On 31/08/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/31/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
OTOH, I've often wondered if setting up an academic wiki would be something to attract people. It could use Mediawiki and GFDL and have similar content guidelines to Wikipedia, just use signed articles, allow article ownership and allow original research. The academic
I think stuff like that already exists in certain fields. I seem to have already come across one for semantics when I was looking for the semanticwiki. It makes sense to split by fields too - there's really no reason for linguists to share a wiki with medical researchers. Except that since every field has a cross-over area with several other fields, and...you can see what I'm getting at.
arXiv.org (mathematics and physics) allows uploads of preprints. Anyone can register to upload and submit an upload, but they need your institutional affiliation and your institution's offical report number. Presumably there is something arXiv-like for other fields.
I wonder if a wiki format would help. A culture of ownership of articles can work on a wiki - where others may add or correct things and the main author may overtly or tacitly approve.
It would certainly seem a sensible place to implement flavour-of-the-month, stable revisions...
(you'd need a stronger form than the one Brion says we're looking at, though - perhaps only allowing the original author or an assigned coauthor to approve changes? But same concept)
I wonder if there's anyone who might be interested in trialling the idea.